Suspenders.



No. 683,458. Patented Oct. l, l90l. W. FREEMAN. 4

SUSPENDERS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WILLIAM FREEMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO TI-IE HARRIS SUSPENDER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

`SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 683,458, dated October 1, 1901.

Application liled March 30,1901. Serial No. 53,684. (No model.)

TQ'ZLZZ whom t may concern.-

`Be it known that I, WILLIAM FREEMAN, a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Suspenders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inx the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Myinvention relates to an improvement in Suspenders, the object of the invention being to provide a suspender which will readily yield to the varying movements of they body and which can be adjusted to accommodate bodies of various shapes.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a detached view. Fig. 3 is a view of the buckle 10 removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional view. Fig. 5 is a front view of the buckle with'the plate 15 thrown down.

1 1 represent shoulder-straps of ordinary construction, provided at their forward ends with sliding straps 2 for attachment to the front of the trousers. The rear ends of straps 1 are provided with metallic eyes 3, through which latter a cord 1i is passed and is provided with loops 5 for attachment to buttons on the back of the trousers and with an intermediate section 9 between the loops 5, as shown.

Between the several sections of cord 4E a -band 6 is located, and the latter is provided at its lower end with a metallic eye 7, through which the intermediate section of cord 9 is passed.

My improved buckle 10 is located on the upper end of the band 6 and comprises a bar 10', provided at each end with a metallic eye 12 to receive the side sections of cord 4. When the ends of the bar 10a have been bent to form the eyes 12, the extremities 10b are made to lie against the bar and provided with lugs 10c to embrace the same, as shown in Fig. 5. A wire loop 17 has its end portions `secured to the bar 10a and projects above said bar and provided with an eye 17a for the passage of the cord 4.. The ends of the wire loop 17 are extended below the bar 10 and then bent inwardly and terminate in lugs or pintles 13, which enter circular or tubular bearings let on a plate 15 and permit a toothed flange 16 on the hinged edge of said plate to be forced into close engagement with the band 6 when the plate 15 is pushed toward the bar 10a, as shown in Fig. 4. A downwardly and outwardly projecting plate 1S is made integral with the lower edge of bar 10d and carries at its lower end aloop 19 to receive the folded end of band 6, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, the portion (ifL of said band forming a pad or cushion between the loops 17 and 10 to prevent any discomfort to the wearer which might otherwise be occasioned by the metal parts 10a, 18, and 19; The band 6 can be adjusted in the buckle by simply swinging the plate 15 so as to move the toothed flange 16 out of engagement with the band, when the latter can be moved through the loops 17 and 19 of the buckle, and thereby adjust the length of the band to suit the comfort of the wearer.

It will be understood that the buckle 10 can be equally as effectively applied at the lower end of the band or similar buckles located at both ends, if desired.

Various slight changes might be resorted to in the general form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence l would have it understood that I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ism

1. A pair of Suspenders comprising shoulder-straps, means at one end thereof for attachment to the trousers, a cord having sliding connection with the other ends of said straps, and adapted to be attached to the back of the trousers, a band located between the several sections of said cord and having IOO sliding connection therewith at one end of the band, a buckle with which the other end of said band is adjustably connected, ametal eye carried by the top of said buckle to receive said cord, and metal eyes at the ends of the buckle for the passage of said cord.

'2. A pair of Suspenders comprising shoulderstraps, means at one end thereof for attachment to the trousers, a cord having sliding connection with the other ends of said straps, and adapted to be attached to the back of the trousers, a band located between the several sections of said cord and having sliding connection therewith at one end of the band, a buckle with which the other end of said band is adjustably connected, one end of the band passed through the buckle, means for securing the strap to the buckle at any desired adjustment, a metal eye carried by the top of the buckle to receive said cord, and integral metal eyes at the ends ot' the buckle for the passage of the cord.

3. A pair of Suspenders comprising shoulder-straps, means at one end thereof for attachment to the trousers, a cord having sliding connection with the other ends of said straps and adapted to be attached to the back of the trousers, a band located between the several sections of said `cord and having sliding connection therewith at one end, a buckle at the other end of the band to adjust its length, loops above and below the buckle and secured thereto to fold the end of the band after being clamped by the buckle and form a pad and a metal eye carried by the buckle to receive the cord.

4:. A buckle for Suspenders comprising a bar, an eye at each end of the bar, a loop above the bar and carrying an eye, a loop below the bar, and a plate hinged to the bar having a toothed flange at its hinged edge.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM FREEMAN.

Witnesses:

HARRY W. SILVERMAN, JOHN E. KEIGHTLEY. 

